Format: CD
Barcode: 8711525510401
Releasedate: 19-08-02
• No other composer was more honoured during his lifetime than Georg Philipp Telemann, and especially the naturalness of his compositions and their accessibility for a large audience was widely admired by his contemporaries, Johann Sebastian Bach among them!
• The recently formed new chamber orchestra Les Elements Amsterdam have chosen for their debut recording five marvellous and absolutely unknown works from the immense output with which Telemann has enriched musical history.
• Regular members of the ensemble play the solo parts in the concerti, with among them famous soloists such as flutists Wilbert Hazelzet and Ricardo Kanji, oboist Ku Ebbinge, bassoonist Donna Agrell, cellist Richte van der Meer, and violinist Alda Stuurop with no less an artist as harpsichordist Jacques Ogg as leader of the continuo group
• Telemann's wonderful sense of instrumentation and sound textures resulted in very unusual combinations of solo instruments such as the Concerto for flauto traverso, viola d'amore and oboe d'amore and the Concerto a 9 with an amusing combination of instruments from piccolo to two double basses..
• Exquisite performances in great sound and another striking cover design!
The chamber orchestra Les Elements Amsterdam was founded in 1993 on the initiative of Alda Stuurop, Jacques Ogg and others, and consists of members of leading baroque ensembles such as the Orchestra of the 18th Century and La Petite Bande. The name was derived from the famous work Les Elements written in 1737 by the French composer Jean-Fery Rebel (1666-1747) in which the four elements - earth, air, water and fire - are musically rendered, starting off from 'Le cahos', chaos, a combined attack of all the instruments of each note in the tonal scale of d minor.
It is the ensemble's objective to extend the existing repertoire with works that have been unjustly neglected. Because the orchestra is made up of baroque specialists who almost all have a soloist's career as well, all solo concerts are executed with soloists who belong to the core of the ensemble.
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1Overture a 11 in e minorOverture04:54
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2Overture a 11 in e minorLes Cyclopes02:34
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3Overture a 11 in e minorMenuet03:13
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4Overture a 11 in e minorGalimatias en Rondeau01:58
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5Overture a 11 in e minorHornpipe02:18
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6Concerto for two flutes, violin, violoncello, strings and b,c in D majorVivace05:04
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7Concerto for two flutes, violin, violoncello, strings and b,c in D majorSiciliana05:38
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8Concerto for two flutes, violin, violoncello, strings and b,c in D majorAllegro06:03
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9Concerto for two flutes, violin, violoncello, strings and b,c in D majorGavotte04:14
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10Concerto for alto recorder, bassoon, two violins, viola and b.c in F majorLargo03:58
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11Concerto for alto recorder, bassoon, two violins, viola and b.c in F majorAllegro04:25
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12Concerto for alto recorder, bassoon, two violins, viola and b.c in F majorGrave04:39
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13Concerto for alto recorder, bassoon, two violins, viola and b.c in F majorAllegro03:56
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14Concerto for flute, oboe, d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and b.c. in E majorAndante03:35
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15Concerto for flute, oboe, d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and b.c. in E majorAllegro05:21
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16Concerto for flute, oboe, d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and b.c. in E majorSiciliana03:01
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17Concerto for flute, oboe, d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and b.c. in E majorVivace04:22
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18Concerto a 9 for piccolo, flute, oboe, chalumeau, two double basses, strings and b.c. in G majorEtwas lebhaft03:06
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19Concerto a 9 for piccolo, flute, oboe, chalumeau, two double basses, strings and b.c. in G majorTändelnd03:07
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20Concerto a 9 for piccolo, flute, oboe, chalumeau, two double basses, strings and b.c. in G majorPresto02:32